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"The Fordyce Bath House in Hot Springs National Park, AR offers free daily tours. 110 years ago it took two days to travel by horse-drawn carriage from Little Rock to Hot Springs, a trip that now takes about an hour by car. People from all over the United States came to bathe in the natural hot waters, often as a "last resort" when limited medical treatments could not cure them. A government subsidized bath at that time cost .25 cents and required a doctor's prescription. Those more fortunate in their wealth could spend their time relaxing at one of over a dozen privately operating bathhouses, where baths cost between $2 and $10, or roughly $50 to $250 today adjusted for inflation. Today there are nine restored bathhouses along Bathhouse Row, though only 3 are open to the public. One for tours and two that are in full operation.

Hot Springs also has four lakes, hundreds of area hiking/biking trails, live horse racing at Oaklawn, dozens of art galleries, Mid-America Science Museum and the largest amusement park in Arkansas, Magic Springs & Crystal Falls."